Assessment of wind power, wind exponent, local air density and air turbulence intensity for an isolated site

International Journal of Sustainable Energy

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 217-230

  Rehman, Shafiqur ^a   Ahmad, Aftab ^a   El Amin, Ibrahim ^a   Al Hadhrami, Luai M ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Wind power assessment; Wind shear exponent; Wind turbulence intensity

Indexed keywords

ABOVE GROUND LEVEL; AIR DENSITY; AIR TURBULENCE; DATA COLLECTION; DATA SETS; HUB HEIGHT; MAXIMUM VALUES; MINIMUM ENERGY; SAUDI ARABIA; TURBULENCE INTENSITY; WIND POWER ASSESSMENT; WIND SHEAR EXPONENT; WIND SHEAR EXPONENTS; WIND SPEED; WIND TURBULENCE INTENSITY;

AIR; RATING; WIND POWER;

TURBULENCE;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DATA SET; TURBULENCE; WIND POWER; WIND SHEAR;

SAUDI ARABIA;

EID: 78650714017     PISSN: 14786451     EISSN: 1478646X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14786450903221511     Document Type: Article

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